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HardCover. Pub Date: June 2005 Pages: 640 in Publisher: Harper of The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. S Some shared language is On what binds the any community together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it.Yet the history of the world s great languages ??has been very little told. Empires of the Word. by the wide-ranging linguist Nicholas Ostler. is the first to ing together the tales in all their glorious variety: the amazing innovations in education. culture. and diplomacy devised by speakers of Sumerian and its successors in the Middle East. right up to the Arabic of the present day; the uncanny resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries of invasions; the charmed progress of Sanskrit from north India to Java and Japan; the engaging self-regard of Greek; the struggles th...
HardCover. Pub Date: June 2005 Pages: 640 in Publisher: Harper of The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. S Some shared language is On what binds the any community together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it.Yet the history of the world s great languages ??has been very little told. Empires of the Word. by the wide-ranging linguist Nicholas Ostler. is the first to ing together the tales in all their glorious variety: the amazing innovations in education. culture. and diplomacy devised by speakers of Sumerian and its successors in the Middle East. right up to the Arabic of the present day; the uncanny resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries of invasions; the charmed progress of Sanskrit from north India to Java and Japan; the engaging self-regard of Greek; the struggles th...
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